ColorPick Eyedropper

If you feel the need to alert the developer about a bug use the feedback forum instead of writing a review.

Note: by default "Attempt to auto copy value to clipboard" disabled. You will be warned during install about a request for clipboardWrite permissions, but this is disabled by default until you enable it in settings because automatically overwriting the clipboard may be annoying. If you do use this setting you can decide whether to auto copy the hex or the rgb css.

ColorPick needs permission on all websites so that it is at the ready when you need it. In order to use the tabs API this permission is required. Color pick does not abuse this permission and is highly configurable. You can always review the source code yourself, which is available online here https://github.com/qufighter/ColorPick PRs welcome!

Please note that colors are picked from a snapshot of the page that is updated only when you scroll. To take a new snapshot press r or use the re-snap button. Sometimes if you just changed tabs, you may see a snapshot error - this is an intentional security feature. Press R or scroll to correct this, or exit color pick and try again.

As with most extensions of this nature, it will not work out of the box on the web store, or on file:// pages. It will work on local file pages only after you "Allow access to file URLs" from the tools->extensions manager. However there is also an alternative feature "snap mode" that uses the active tab permission to take a screenshot anyway, which is then sent to a new tab where permission to run the extension may be granted, however you will have to click the extension icon again on this new tab at present.

If you experience an issue, try the following: